[003] - Action and Phone

[fasterthan]

Action - Mailbox at 1665 Nelson after work
[Wally got a package in the mail! It's addressed to him and everything! EXCITING! He opens it up and... oh.

It's his superhero costume. He doesn't take it all the way out of the box, he just... stares at it.

Then he frowns and says, almost petulantly,]

Oh come on, that's just not fair.

Phone - That Evening

So hey this whole mail business... so they give you some of your old stuff back after... weird stuff happens? Is this a regular thing?

Comments

[fasterthan]

Eh, it's not a big deal, but what they gave me is kind of useless if I don't have something else first, so. [TRYING TO BE NONCHALANT ABOUT IT. Secret identity and all.] And someone told me about the post office, apparently the price is pretty steep. I'm not nearly desperate enough to try it.

[notasidedick]

I guess that can be annoying. [Not that he really has a lot to try and bargain for. The upsides of not having superpowers perhaps.]

I guess you'll just have to wait until they give it back then.

Dick Grayson by the way. I need to stop assuming people know me when I talk to the phone.

[fasterthan]

Yeah, pretty annoying. I'm not great with the whole patience thing, but I guess there's a first time for everything.

It's this weird habit that most people have here, I noticed. People just start talking to each other and I feel like I have to pull names out of people. Wally West, nice to meet you.

((OOC: I actually had to hash this out but unfortunately it's true, this version of Wally has no clue who Dick is. There is no mention of any of the Robins or Nightwing in JL/JLU, and even if they do exist, there's no evidence that Wally would know any of them well enough to know their names and secret identities. IT IS VERY SAD BUT TRUE. That's what I get for playing DCAU Wally only.))

[notasidedick]

[[OOC: Don't worry about it!]

[Hold the phon-oh wait he is holding it.] Wait. From Keystone City, Wally West? [But Wally would have recognized his name if they knew each other.] There's a Gotham city from where you come from?

[fasterthan]

Huh? No, I'm from Central City. Why, you got a mysterious Wally West duplicate, too? And yeah, there's a Gotham. [He is now VERY CURIOUS since Bart was all "OH MAN WALLY BOO" and now this guy apparently knows a Wally HOW ODD. HMM.]

[notasidedick]

Yeah. Sorry. The Wally from my time is actually a really close friend of mine. I guess you're getting tired of people recognizing you when you don't recognize them back.

[fasterthan]

Oh. No, it's okay man, don't even worry about. I mean yeah, it's crazy weird. Bart was telling me all about this whole family that I don't even have.

Sorry for uh... not knowing you though.

[notasidedick]

I guess you might have it someday. I wouldn't know. It seems there's a lot of differences between universe to universe.

Don't worry about it. It's not your fault.

[fasterthan]

Maybe. Pretty sure you don't suddenly develop uncles, though.

I know, but I still kind of feel bad about it.

[notasidedick]

In this place, I wouldn't be surprised though. Being married and suddenly having children seems to be the norm.

[He chuckles a bit.] Don't worry too much about it. It doesn't necessarily mean we can't be friends now. [FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC???]

[fasterthan]

Yeah well here I wouldn't be surprised. Back home is a different thing entirely.

Well hey, no reason not to give it a shot. [MAAAAAAGIC!!]

[notasidedick]

I don't know. Sometimes home can get kind of weird. [Being a Bat is suffering.]

See, we're already on to something. Kind of.

[fasterthan]

Okay yeah, but it's a different kind of weird. Usually. Most of the time.

Hey, what do you know!

Question, though. You said where you come from we're pretty good friends. Uh... just to make this clear on my part so I don't freak out or anything, how much do you know?

[notasidedick]

We were pretty much best friends. We practically did everything together. Even stuff people usually don't do.

[Hint. Hint. Wink. Wink?]

[fasterthan]

[He's listening for it, so he gets it.]

Riiiiiight. I gotcha. Cool.